1. City in Kansas (USA), population 6242; zip code 67410.
2. City in Texas (USA), population 106654.
(Texas).
City in central Texas, US, southwest of Fort Worth; seat of Taylor County; population (1990) 106,650. It is a center for oil-drilling equipment. Abilene was founded 1881 as the terminus for the Texas and Pacific Railroad.(Kansas).
Town in Kansas, US, on the Smoky Hill River; population (1990) 6,240. In the 1860s Abilene was the northern terminus of the Chisholm Trail cattle drive and the point from which the herds were shipped east by rail. Industries include the manufacture of aircraft and missile components and oil-field equipment.
President Eisenhower lived here as a boy and is buried here; the Eisenhower Center, also here, includes a museum and library.